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Originally Posted by Thinker
I'm also going to see how it goes for me to cut off my eating at 4:30. I was intentionally eating later there for a while, primarily because of the weight training. Since I'm not on weights right now, I thought I'd give this a try and see how it goes.
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Hi all,
This and the “eat everything not nailed down” syndrome is something that I have struggled with a lot. Just plain eating too much.
I also tried not eating in the evening, or not after 6pm or some other kind of number I would think would help. I know there is a lot of anecdotal evidence out there suggesting that this will help with weight loss. It simply did not work for me in real life.
I was hungry damnit!
No matter what I do, once I start eating for the day, it’s like opening a valve and I’m hungry about every 3-4 hours until I go to bed. I really don’t do well with that. So, in the spirit of finding what would actually work for me, I did the opposite. Have dinner at 8, and go to bed around 11 before I get seriously hungry again.
A while back I posted about eating fewer meals per day (and have no idea how to link to it; it was on 8/13); so how does this work? I commit the cardinal sin of not eating breakfast per se.
I do actually “break the fast” everyday, I just do it later in the day: say around lunch time
. This accomplishes a couple of things for me. All of my blood sugar gyration, hunger pang producing type of activities happen when I am asleep; after that later dinner. When I wake up it is all over with, leveled out, and I don’t get truly hungry until later in the day. This is of course after the habit portion of “must eat in the morning” has been broken. Also a high quality of food when eating is assumed.
So this creates for me what I think of as a window of eating opportunity, usually about 12-2pm until 7-8pm. This way I have the ability to eat two hearty satisfying meals and a good snack at about 3 1/2 hr intervals. It also allows my digestive system to catch a break from aways focusing on dealing with whatever I just put in there and divert attention towards other restorative processes.
At least that’s how it seems to work for me. I’ve been doing this for the last 6 months straight and have not had any problems with energy or sleep patterns; and yes, that means on days when the tide sends me out in the morning I walk 10 miles in the sand before eating. I seem to have plenty of gas in tank from my evening meal, it’s just a non-issue, go figure. Everyone is different, but if something doesn’t work, maybe stand it on its head to see what will.
Thinker makes me think, so I found an interesting article about evening eating. It is
here.
There are also some related links in the references at the end of the article.
